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A suspect was transported by helicopter to a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds Saturday morning after he threatened Roane County Sheriff’s Office Deputies outside a home on Mays Valley Rd.

David B. Daugherty, 47, was shot in the chest and arm by a RCSO deputy after he threatened officers that had responded to a call about two males arguing at the 352 Mays Valley Rd. home, Sheriff Jack Stockton said.

Daugherty was reportedly arguing with Keith Edwards, a resident of the home, about the use of a vehicle owned by Edwards’ sister.

As you have no doubt heard, Pauline and Albert Gore, Sr., raised their son, young Albert, Jr., to be a well-behaved young man, and we’re glad they did.

The faculty and staff of the prep school to which young Al was sent, St. Albans School for Boys in Washington, taught him leadership, and to be self-disciplined, and self-controlled, and we’re glad they did.

His comrades and compatriots taught young Al the precepts of good sportsmanship, deference and modesty; to be as good a loser as winner, and we’re glad they did.

The man shot in an officer-involved shooting that occurred Saturday was in stable condition as of Monday, according to the Roane County Sheriff’s Office.

David B. Daugherty, 47, was shot multiple times by Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Joseph after he threatened officers who responded to a call about two males arguing at the 352 Mays Valley Road home, Sheriff Jack Stockton said.

The incident is being investigated by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the 9th Judicial District Attorney General’s Office.

Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation found a number of violations during a visit to the Oliver Springs Wastewater Plant last month.

“In August 2017, a routine inspection was conducted at the wastewater plant resulting in a Notice of Violation being issued. Discrepancies were noted in the areas of flow measurement and recording, sample collection, laboratory procedures as well as operational issues,” said Eric Ward, communications director of TDEC.

Oliver Springs Manager Chris Mason said the issues were being addressed.

Gentle reader, not quite a month has passed since we wrote bemoaning the growth of ignorance and the accompanying spread of efforts to “unknow” our real and actual history, and to foist off upon us an ersatz version of that history. We suppose that this is just another aspect of Kellyanne Conway’s “alternative facts”.

We encountered such an effort to recite supposed history in a recent letter to the editor of the Knoxville News Sentinel (13 Sept.) wherein the correspondent writes: